Agricultural UAV Drone Market Has Huge Potential

Agriculture UAV drones have applications in many civilian areas. For example, Xinhua announced the formation of a drone news editing team for news applications; for example, earthquake relief, cable inspection, etc., but large areas for civilian use Maybe agricultural use.

In developed countries, agriculture is already highly mechanized, and farmers can even buy satellite photos to assess growth and pests. Combined with satellite photos and GPS, advanced agricultural machinery can be supplemented with fertilizers and pesticides at fixed points, watered at fixed points to avoid waste, and ensure high and stable production. But satellite photos are more expensive, especially for high-resolution photos, and the timeliness is not ideal. A low-cost micro drone equipped with a simple multi-spectral camera is easy to achieve low-cost, high-frequency, near-real-time monitoring of farmland, grasp the situation of soil, moisture, and crop growth at any time, determine seeding, replanting, watering, and fertilization The need to spray pesticides, or to monitor the results of each fruit tree in a large orchard, is convenient for targeted timely harvesting.

Agriculture UAV drones can be used not only for monitoring, but also for aerial fertilization and spraying pesticides. Such drones have low requirements for ceiling, speed, and endurance time, as long as they can cover their own farms. In fact, it is the technical requirements for large model aircraft, but the number requirements will be large. It is estimated that this may include 80 % Of the civilian drone market. As far as the air traffic control problem is concerned, this is the air close to the ground on the peasants' own land. It does not involve flight safety and public privacy issues in public airspace and is relatively easy to implement. Not only farmers can use drones, but also herders can use drones to monitor herds, or to explore roads during migration, to explore the water and grass conditions in distant pastures, and to search for scattered livestock.

At present, domestic agricultural drones are widely used in plant protection. Agricultural drones have unparalleled advantages of ordinary machinery: low operating height, low drift, hovering in the air, no special take-off and landing airport required, and the downward airflow generated by the rotors helps to increase the penetration of the mist to the crop. The control effect is good, the remote operation is remote, the spraying operator avoids the danger of being exposed to pesticides, and the safety of spraying operation is improved. Unmanned helicopter spraying technology using spray spraying can save at least 50% of pesticide use and 90% of water consumption, which greatly reduces resource costs.

China has vigorously developed agricultural mechanization. As the level of mechanization continues to increase, the demand for efficient and low-cost agricultural machinery in agricultural operations will increase greatly. As a new type of agricultural machinery, agricultural drones will gradually take off with the development of agricultural modernization in China.

The Agriculture UAV drones market potential is huge: China has an area of 1.8 billion mu of arable land and a large area of mountainous hills. If sprayed five times a year, the operating price is 10 yuan per mu, and the annual income of agricultural drones will reach 90 billion yuan. The attention and support of the national agricultural machinery promotion department will lower the consumption threshold and accelerate the promotion. For example, for the first time this year, Henan Province included agricultural aircraft in the scope of agricultural machinery purchase subsidies, and implemented cumulative subsidies. In order to promote the development of efficient plant protection mechanization and serve modern agriculture, the Agricultural Machinery Bureau of Anyang has adopted various measures to actively publicize the subsidy policy for agricultural drones, speed up the docking of farmers' cooperatives and production enterprises, encourage direct sales by production enterprises, and truly benefit the people . This has also accelerated the development of agriculture uav drones.